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The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase

1973
Drama
1h 53m
Hart is a confused first year law student at Harvard. He is trying to survive the year under his strictest professer, the legendary Kingsfield. With the help of some of his classmates in his study group, Hart becomes one of the smartest students in his class. His reputation with Kingsfield is diminished, however, when he finds out the girl he has been seeing is Kingfields daughter. Will Hart perform to the best of his ability with Kingsfield watching his every move? (imdb)
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The Paper Chase

1973
Drama
1h 53m
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Rated 28 Aug 2010
80
59th
The actors r all great (tho years of knockoffs has somewhat diminished Houseman's archetype) & the film achieves its main goal of making higher education look glorious while exploring the hardships & emotional costs of trying to excel at Harvard Law. However the romance is lacking. Since the friction between Wagner & Bottoms is so clearly drawn it only highlights the fact that the film seems 2 have 0 interest in giving us some understanding as 2 y the hell these 2 want 2 keep seeing 1 another.
Rated 19 Mar 2014
65
43rd
So it's like Mr. Baseball, but not as good.
Rated 12 Aug 2009
8
55th
Lest anyone forget, we all live in two disparate realities: the way things actually are and the way we imagine them to be.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
84
75th
I will never go to law school. "Mr. Hart?!"
Rated 19 Dec 2008
5
96th
As a survivor of a top grad program, this movie connects with me. Kingsfield is definitely a personality found at almost any academic insitution.
Rated 05 Feb 2015
75
74th
Took me a little while to get into it but liked this quite a bit.
Rated 17 Aug 2009
77
58th
Not really what law school is like anymore, but still every law student should see this.
Rated 16 Oct 2015
7
84th
I really liked it. I mean, the romance was kinda eh, but the depiction of academic pressure was great and incredibly relatable for anyone who's ever tried to make the grade. I wish we could have more college movies like this and fewer that are raucous sex comedies. Also, that 70s hair, holy shit. Was Timothy Bottoms' hair style in this movie actually like a fashionable thing in (on the cosmic scale) the fairly recent past? Mind-blowing.
Rated 12 Sep 2010
65
69th
It's a good thing we regard and pay lawyers so highly or no one but masochists would put themselves through this kind of dehumanizing bullshit. God bless them up there at the top, it would cause me to have a nervous breakdown. The script is well thought out and realistic. With a slightly better director and a more prestigious cast, this could've been great. Houseman won an Oscar for this, and while it's a good performance, it looks better than it is when compared to his struggling counterparts.

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